Kaleida Health hosted the first-ever Western New York Healthcare Development Consortium on Tuesday.
Health care workers, local students, workforce development organization leaders, training providers and community stakeholders all came together at the Buffalo Marriott on Millersport Highway in Amherst.
“Health care organizations are facing shortages in hard-to-fill clinical and non-clinical roles, increasing demand for services, demographic shifts, and growing complexity in care delivery. These challenges are not unique to any one organization, and neither are the solutions,” Kaleida Health said in a press release. “The Western New York Healthcare Workforce Development Consortium is being created to reduce fragmentation across employers and educators, strengthen career pathways, and build a more resilient, diverse, and sustainable healthcare workforce for our region.”
The goal is to strengthen career pathways, and build a more resilient, diverse and sustainable health care workforce.
“Our ability to deliver on the services that people expect is definitely predicated on the fact of having a good supply of talented people and we are making sure we have the talent needed to supply the health care that the people of Western New York deserve,” Ian Barrett, executive vice president, Kaleida Health, said.